UX Researcher


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Spring Group Plc

Listed on

30th November 2018

Location

Edinburgh

Salary/Rate

£400 - £500

Type

Contract

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Spring Technology's client, a public sector organisation, are currently looking to recruit a User Experience Researcher for an initial 6 month contract based in Edinburgh on a rate of c.£400-500/day (outside of IR35).

Responsibilities:

* Involved in ensuring that the system touch-points during a customers' life-time with the organisation are part of a coherent, consistent experience.

* Conducting user research that will bring out user needs.

* Ensuring that usability testing is undertaken frequently, economically with appropriate users and measures, as part of the development cycle.

* Creating high & low fidelity prototypes based on existing design patterns that bring results from the research to life, complete with customer journeys.

* Delivering UX feedback to Agile delivery teams to compliment sprint cycles.

* Work as part of a multi-disciplined team to design user focussed and successful services.

* Support the UX community within the IT department.

* Build relationships and work effectively with external parties, for example legal firms, lenders, citizens.

Requirements:

* Experience of user research and analysis, both qualitative and quantitative, to establish baselines and monitor on-going trends or improvements.

* Demonstrates expertise designing interactions professionally for the public via the web & mobile as well as internal users, i.e. back-office operations Core skills: sketching, design production, rapid prototyping.

* Experience of Sketch and Invision, or Axure.

* Experience of working with user experience practices, such as UX labs, mobile UX testing and pop-up research.

* Knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards and principles.

* Experience of user experience within large scale digital delivery programme with proven results that are traceable to user experience interventions.

* Experience working within an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, using lean UX techniques, and ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to the development team.

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch with Claire Lorden OR Chris Wallis on 0131 524 9027 or send your CV through to [email protected] OR [email protected]

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